Rahman stays true to the element of Ratnam's vision as there's never any attempt to show off or introduce unnecessary elements.
Which is a pity, because Robot's storyline -- which seems a bit like Bicenntenial Man, starring Robin Williams -- is all about a mechanical creation discovering human emotions.
Oscar winning music composer A R Rahman on Saturday launched the theme song of the Commonwealth Games with a rendering of "Oh yaaro, yeh India bula liya" at a glittering ceremony in Gurgaon.
Nobel laureate of Indian origin Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, noted theatre personality Ebrahim Alkazi were on Wednesday conferred the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award by President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi.
'Even in a conservative society like Chennai, youngsters don't feel bound by conventions anymore.' 'But how deeply has this change permeated our society? Is it just on a superficial level? That is the question the film tries to address.'
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The musician is having Jai Ho concerts in 16 world cities.
The album is expected to be released in April in 18 different languages, including English, Tamil, and Hindi.
Choreographer Rujuta Vaidya tells Arthur J Pais she's lucky to be working on Rahman's concert.
'The source of our music, the very notes of music itself have fallen silent.'
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Donald Trump, accompanied by US First Lady Melania Trump, was received by Kovind at the forecourt of majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan along with his wife Savita.
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The music composer sings If I Rise at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards.
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Ulaga Tamizh Semmozhi Maanadu, the official anthem of the World Classical Tamil Conference, scored by A R Rahman is a very pleasant musical experience.
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Amid criticism that it failed to meet the expectations of the people, the theme song of the Commonwealth Games composed by A R Rahman has been tweaked a bit to make it peppier like the popular Bollywood number 'Chak de'.
A R Rahman, whose score for the Donny Boyle directed survival drama 127 Hours had brought him a Golden Globe nomination a month ago, has done better at the Oscars. He has bagged two Oscar nominations, like he did for Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. Apart from the score, he also received a nomination for If I Rise which he sang with the British artist Dido.
Playback singer Vijay Prakash talks about a meeting with A R Rahman that gave him the two most popular songs of his career.
A R Rahman's Commonwealth Games theme song has failed to impress the CWG Organising Committee's executive board member V K Malhotra, who feels the composition has 'fallen short of expectations'.
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After bagging a Golden Globe nomination, the music maestro is once again in Oscar race with his song 'If I Rise' from 127 Hours making it to the Academy shortlist for the Original Song category.
President Pratibha Patil's son is fighting on a Congress ticket against the powerful two-term sitting Member of Legislative Assembly and Maharashtra Finance Minister Sunil Deshmukh, who has quit the party to contest as an independent. A R Rahman made it a part of his Oscar awards acceptance speech. But not many imagined that the politics of Amravati would revolve around Salim-Javed's immortal dialogue in the Hindi blockbuster Deewar: "Mere paas maa hai!"
Their performance would mark the first time an Indian troupe has danced in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Parade's 84 years history.
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Over 50,000 people are expected to attend Rahman's Jai Ho concert at a specially created arena near the airport.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh doesn't seem to have stopped smiling since he met Barack Obama at Delhi airport on Sunday.
Some of the promoters who had reportedly paid anything between $500, 000 to $1 million for each show were upset that tickets were not moving fast enough.
Piling up one exciting show biz piece after another, and unfolding against dazzling, fast changing backgrounds, with over a dozen dancers and acrobats adding additional thrills, the A.R. Rahman Jai Ho Concert: The Journey Home World Tour got on to a rousing start in New York on Friday, continued in Atlantic City the next day, and arrived in DC-Virginia on Sunday.
President Pratibha Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari, music director A R Rahman and noted lyricist Gulzar on Sunday watched the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire at the Rashtrapati Bhavan auditorium in New Delhi. Oscar awardee Resul Pookuty and Vikas Swarup, on whose novel Q and A the movie is based, also attended the screening. According to a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson, the two-hour-long special screening was exclusively organised for the President.
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Blame it on A R Rahman, who has not been able to complete the background score in time.
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